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HELP! Pickup object rotates down the track

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Member since Sep-26-03 · 12 posts

LAST EDITED ON Dec-09-03 AT 03:48 PM (EST)

I've been placing interactive water tanks and coaling towers in various places on my route without any problems. Now I have this situation, in this one location but not in other locations, where, if I place either object and then hit F4 and then rotate it to align with the track, it does not rotate with the pink square remaining in place, but instead the object and its pink square move down the track as I rotate it. In this picture, for instance, the object was placed at the center of the picture, but as I held down the left arrow key, it moved down the track as it rotated until I quit when it reached the edge of the editor window. I continue to get proper results elsewhere. This may be the only location with a problem, although the same thing happens on the adjacent coal delivery spur. Does anyone know how I might deal with this? (Note that this spot is next to a wye, as shown in the second picture, but removing the wye by deleting the adjacent point does not solve the problem.)Don

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Member since Sep-26-03 · 12 posts

RE: HELP! Pickup object rotates down the track

I did some experimenting. It appears that these interactive objects "slide downhill" if the grade is greater than a certain amount. Problem has been solved.

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